Title A new vision for missions : William Cameron Townsend, the Wycliffe Bible translators, and the culture of early evangelical faith missions, 1896-1945 / William Lawrence Svelmoe.

Publication Info.	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2008]
	©2008

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 369 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-361) and index.
Summary	Cam Townsend is known as the visionary founder of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and the Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT). Townsend revolutionized Protestant missions by emphasizing that missionaries needed to learn the language of the people to whom they were sent. This title features the biography of the missionary.
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Subject	Townsend, William Cameron, 1896-1982.
	Townsend, William Cameron, 1896-1982.
	Wycliffe Bible Translators.
	Wycliffe Bible Translators.
	Summer Institute of Linguistics.
	Summer Institute of Linguistics.
	Townsend, William Cameron, 1896-1982.
	Wycliffe Bible Translators -- History.
	Summer Institute of Linguistics -- History.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Biographies.
	Biographies.
Other Form:	Print version: Svelmoe, William Lawrence. New vision for missions. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008005571
ISBN	9780817380656 (electronic)
	0817380655 (electronic)
	9780817315931 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	0817315934 (cloth ; alkaline paper)